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Monday, May 25, 2015

Yu Gi Oh Crossed Souls Pricing

Crossed Souls has proven one of the weaker releases for Yu
Gi Oh in recent memory. We went pretty lightly on orders and still did not sell
one single pack the day it came out. Players have shown little interest in
single cards from theset and we have
easily sold more commons from other sets than we have from Crossed Souls. Collectors
have not sought the rarer cards from the set, at least not to the point where
prices have gone up significantly. In fact, checking a couple of card pricewebsites shows no Crossed Souls cards increasing significantly in value while
several, including Clear Wing Syncro Dragon and Order of Zerfa, have dropped
over 50% in value just in the past week.

However, the greatest, to my mind, indication of the
weakness and lack of interest in Crossed Souls is the price of a booster
display on the interwebs, which despite all of the problems associated with
them, do a very good job of assessing the market value of a product. A display
of Crossed Souls has a retail value of $96 (24 packs at $4 per pack). Usually,
one can find booster displays at significant discounts to that as box flippers
or stores that overbought seek to unload excess product. However, you don’t
usually find full displays selling at a 44% discount to retail value less than
a week after release. I easily found a number of sellers offering displays of
Crossed Souls at prices ranging from $54 to $58 per display. That’s a huge
price cut for less than a week after release.